Yes.... is that's time of year when the world falls in love every song you hear seems to say...Love me I'm Hannah Montana. Anywho in a couple of weeks we'll open gifts, travel about town and come home exhausted from the same ole, same ole deja vu we experienced last year. Just once I wish they'd televise "It's a Wonderful Life" during the lead-up to Christmas. They never show that movie anymore. As you get older you begin to realize that routine is at once a blessing and a curse that befalls us one and all. Mix it up? sure!... got the extra bucks for that? Is there a true meaning of Christmas anymore to be found? Does anyone want to find it? Is it a Charlie Brown Christmas? Ya betcha! Sorry couldn't resist that dig at Mrs. Marcus. Maybe Christmas is feeling like something new is afoot and yet still being grounded in the faith of celebrating the one perfect person who guides, loves and forgives us, even when we don't listen to his counsel so well. Maybe it's feeling that the human race is inherently good and does strive to do good and take care of one another sometimes. Maybe it's recognizing that in this gargantuan universe even though it just might be us here, at least we're here. Perhaps, its enough to realize we can't do it all alone and that the person next to us feels the same way but is afraid to admit that, so we just hope secretly that he feels the same way. Maybe Christmas is all those things to us and we know this but choose only to recognize it for a few days a year, for that is all the spirit we can give. Christmas is a time to remember the one person who loved us despite all our faults, mistakes we make, and continue to make. Christmas should be about realizing all of this and loving each other as Jesus did.
J
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